Bye building, hello parking: Capitol Heights can't afford to fix up a historic building once slated as its new city hall, so it will tear it down for a paid parking lot instead. (Gazette)

Car2go launches: Zipcar gets some competition this weekend with the launch of car2go, which offers one-way car sharing. Sign-ups are free for the weekend. (Washingtonian)

Arts get a budgetary boost: The proposed DC budget would increase arts funding by at least $4.4 million, with more funds contingent on federal moneynot really increase arts funding at all, but just reflects a shift of a program from federal to DC control. The proposed arts budget Even with the federal shift, the local arts budget, at $7.6 million, is still only half what it was in 2009. (DCist, City Paper)

Cyclists are best customers: Cyclists bring more economic activity than drivers, due to moving slower through an area, taking up less room to park, and more. Localities can use bike infrastrure and ciclovias to attract economic activity. (Streetsblog)

Better map for the Bay: The San Francisco Bay Area's balkanized transit system sprawls over the gigantic region without any unifying transit map, leading to some very confused riders. One unofficial unified map is starting to make waves. (Atlantic Cities)

Comments

The post about grant funds drying up probably could easily be spun as "grant funds end for flawed Rhee performance program". the big loss is for IMPACT which like most of the Rhee legacy was about gimmicks rather than substance. A competent performance appraisal person would have come up with something that reflects what actually happens in a classroom with realistic expectations for student improvement, instead of something embedded in a system that's easily gamed by cheating and sucking up to principals.

I'm pretty excited about the launch of car2go here. I ditched Zipcar a few years back...I figured they were just getting too expensive. For those of us trying to get by car-lite/car-free, these kind of services are a plus. The thing I miss about Zipcar is their truck...it was very useful for a Sunday run to Ikea. I don't think the car2go Smart Cars are going to be much use for that!

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